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Larry Ellison's Brit consortium in 'advanced talks' to buy Aston Villa

He really has got his head in the clouds...

Kent Police handed domestic abuse victim's data to alleged abuser – a Kent cop

Information Commissioner hands down £80,000 fine

FBI boss: We paid at least $1.2m to crack the San Bernardino iPhone

VidNice work, if you can get it

Adobe scrambles to untangle itself from QuickTime after Apple throws it under a bus

Tim Cook, photo by JStone via Shutterstock
Law

Indian Capital Delhi bans Uber's surge pricing

'Daylight robbery' cannot be allowed says chief minister
22 Apr 01:58
Hardware

Hands up who prayed for AMD? It worked

Mini-Chipzilla licenses CPU tech to Chinese manufacturer – and the crowd goes wild
22 Apr 01:13
Security

Adobe scrambles to untangle itself from QuickTime after Apple throws it under a bus

Cupertino's calamitous conduct drops users down security hole
22 Apr 00:24
Mobile

Verizon is big on IoT 'cos its wireline biz is dying on the vine

Telco keeps revenues up with strong hardware sales
22 Apr 00:01
Financial News

Stalled cloud growth, software flatlining, hated Lumias unsold... It's all fine, says Microsoft CEO

In Soviet Redmond, phones rain on cloud
21 Apr 23:25
Financial News

When is making $20bn in three months not enough? When your name is Google

Wall Street hammers Chocolate Factory for not hitting targets
21 Apr 22:20
Law

SpyEye duo behind bank-account-emptying malware banged up

Billion-dollar Russian Trojan team in the tank for quarter of a century in the US
21 Apr 20:38

Don't miss How innocent people 'of no security interest' are mere keystrokes away in UK's spy databases

Networks

Big Cable threatens to sue FCC: You can't stop us ripping off customers

Common standards for set-top boxes? Ha ha ha
13 Comments
21 Apr 20:06
Media

Comcast stabs set-top boxes in the back, pipes directly into smart TVs

This wouldn't have anything to do with a recent FCC decision, would it?
21 Apr 19:43
Software

Come get your free Opera VPN (and bring along something to read)

Browser offers secure service, world + dog chokes up pipeline
21 Apr 19:25
Security

FBI boss: We paid at least $1.2m to crack the San Bernardino iPhone

Vid Nice work, if you can get it
21 Comments
21 Apr 19:11
Science
EmDrive space motor

'Impossible' EmDrive flying saucer thruster may herald new theory of inertia

Boffin probes interstellar microwave engine
46 Comments
21 Apr 18:03
Security

Dutch PGP-encrypted comms network ‘abused by crooks’ is busted

Secure chat setup swooped on by police forces
22 Comments
21 Apr 15:58
Storage
Micron_16nm_NAND_wafer

Goodbye: XPoint is Intel's best exit from NAND production hell

Analysis How a $35m revenue hit turns into a $167m profit change
21 Apr 15:28
Financial News

EMC results: It'll all come out in the post-Dell deal wash

+Comment Winners, losers... and that dratted Mofcom
21 Apr 14:57
Government

Irish mum coughs to children's allowance fiddle

Claimed while working for Microsoft in Oz, court hears
21 Apr 14:28
Developer

Microsoft headhunters seek Linux folk for secret open source unit

Exclusive Recruiters target penguinistas for Azure sales joy
18 Comments
21 Apr 13:56
Financial News

Check Point chugs on: Profits and revenues up despite volatile market

CEO warns that he's 'cautious as regards overall IT industry spending'
21 Apr 13:20
Media

Blighty ranks 38th in World Press Freedom Index

Finland tops league, Eritrea at bottom of table
40 Comments
21 Apr 12:57
Bootnotes

Larry Ellison's Brit consortium in 'advanced talks' to buy Aston Villa

He really has got his head in the clouds...
32 Comments
21 Apr 12:32
Business

12,000 chopped: Intel finds its inner paranoid

The ghost of Grove that drove CEO Krzanich
30 Comments
21 Apr 12:00
Networks

Embattled 123-reg flings six months' free hosting at angry customers

Take this free thing and please stop slagging us off
31 Comments
21 Apr 11:41
Law

Kent Police handed domestic abuse victim's data to alleged abuser – a Kent cop

Information Commissioner hands down £80,000 fine
55 Comments
21 Apr 11:18
Financial News

The suits in finance are cutting down on tech spend – Computacenter

Q1 trading update is tale of two countries – Germany 1, UK 0
21 Apr 10:57
Science

Soyuz to loft Sentinel-1B Earth-watching sat

Launch tomorrow from French Guiana
15 Comments
21 Apr 10:26
Jobs

Intel told Irish council all was well just before 12k job cuts announced

Kildare politicians not happy with silence over Leixlip plant
24 Comments
21 Apr 09:57
Storage
open_door_648

Druva fills luggage with cash, heads to Japan

Chasing rising business in Land of the Rising Sun
21 Apr 09:41
Broadband
Image from Shutterstock 161369036

'Technology enablers' will help Ofcom determine if spectrum can be shared

We're talking tools, not people. Quiet in the back!
21 Apr 09:02
Storage
3d_XPOint_structure

Storage with the speed of memory? XPoint, XPoint, that's our plan

Analysis And if it can't do it, (other) ReRAM can
15 Comments
21 Apr 08:58
Business

Hortonworks CEO tells El Reg: 'Clearly there's a lot of work to do'

Interview Brave claim from big data business boss: We will make money
21 Apr 08:31
Financial News

Qualcomm channels Star Trek's Scotty at it faces a mobe chip wreck

Analysis CEO assumes major customer (cough, Apple) may buy fewer Qualy modem chips
21 Apr 07:57
Security

Lock-hackers crack restricted keys used to secure data centres

Bsides Canberra Patented keys have high-quality drawings in plain sight
19 Comments
21 Apr 07:28
Security

Logging on to United's frequent flyer site might take longer than a flight

Airline dumps PINs for passwords to harden MileagePlus accounts
27 Comments
21 Apr 06:58
Operating Systems

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS arrives today complete with forbidden ZFS

The Xenial Xerus want to get cloudy, but first: let battle be joined in GPL hell
118 Comments
21 Apr 06:31
Security

How innocent people 'of no security interest' are mere keystrokes away in UK's spy databases

Blighty's classified manuals on mass snooping revealed
83 Comments
21 Apr 06:02
Cloud

Google teams with Iron Mountain for LTO-to-cloud migration

Tape still not dead: it will die in the year N where N is this year plus 1
10 Comments
21 Apr 05:24
Software

Chrome lives in dog years: It's seven years old but just turned 50

It seems like just yesterday Google released that slightly odd comic
14 Comments
21 Apr 04:57
Virtualization

VMware's Photon Machine 'microvisor' may not be so small

The magic's in the integration between OS and hypervisor, not just a smaller virty layer
21 Apr 03:58
Government

Australia admits to running offensive cyber-ops team

New Cyber Security Strategy pours money on collaboration centres, industry
15 Comments
21 Apr 03:45
Security

Magnitude malvertisers spew 400 attacks from abused Scot ad firm

Can't fault their work ethic.
17 Comments
21 Apr 02:32
Cloud

Stop laughing: Azure can analyse your mood in a crowd

Microsoft's cloudy new media services aim to automate video and voice analysis
21 Apr 01:39
Law
Still from the Star Trek original series episode "arena" of enterprise using photon torpedo. Pic copyright: Paramount Pictures, CBS Studios

FBI's Tor pedo torpedoes torpedoed by United States judge

Need a district court warrant to infect suspects? How did the Feds NIT see that coming?
62 Comments
21 Apr 00:46
Cloud
cloud

Microsoft lures IT pros with breadcrumb trail of candy to its cloud

We didn't build all this for you to goof off on AWS
10 Comments
20 Apr 22:44
Operating Systems
android_money_648

Not OK, Google! FTC urged to thrust antitrust probe into Android

Google could feel heat stateside after Europe laid down the law
20 Comments
20 Apr 21:57
Security

Ex-NSA security expert develops generic Mac ransomware blocker

RansomWhere? suspends untrusted processes
20 Apr 21:38
Security

US government sued by activists looking for backdoor smoking gun

EFF sues US DOJ over FISC FOIA, OMG
17 Comments
20 Apr 20:55
Government

FBI's PRISM slurping is 'unconstitutional' – and America's secret spy court is OK with that

How about an appeal? Nope
41 Comments
20 Apr 20:42

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